Railway-joint



(No Model Q aFEARBY, RAILWAY JOINT,

No. 427,505. Patented May 6, 1890.

FREDERICK T. FEAREY, OF. NEIVARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE CONTINUOUS RAIL JOINT COMPANY OF AMERICA, OF NEIV JERSEY.

RAiLWAY-JOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,505, dated May 6, 1890.

Application filed March 1, 1890- Serial No. 342,272. (No model.)

T aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK T. FEAREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Joints; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

I 5 The object of this invention is to more securely fasten the rail fish-plate to the crosstie to prevent the rail or the fish-plate thereof from creeping, to reduce the cost of con struction, and of maintaining the track in proper condition to secure other advantages and results, substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

in which like letters indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing portions of two rails connected by fish-plates of my improved construction, showing certain dovetailed slots therein adapted to receive certain spikes of peculiar formation. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a spike adapted for use in connection with said fishplates. Fig. 4 is a section of the same, taken 5 on line 00. Fig. 5 is an elevation of an improved or preferred form of said spike, and

Fig. 6 is a section taken on line In said drawings, a indicates the rails; b b,

the fish-plates for connecting the same; 0 0,

0 the ties; d d, the bolts for fastening the fishplates to the rails, and e e spikes for fastening the fish-plates to the ties to prevent the rail from creeping and to hold said fish-plates to said ties. The said fish-plates are formed 5 as shown more clearly in Fig. 2, in which I) are vertical portions having upper and lower bearings which engage the head of the rail and the foot of the rail, respectively, the bearings being of the same degree of inclination,

but oppositely inclined, as shown. 6 and b are horizontal or approximately horizontal bearings which engage the upper and lower sides of the flanges, the two bearings being of the same thickness of metal, integrally connected at the edge of the flange. here the plate forming the bearings b b is bent to turn around the edge of the flange or foot of the rail the same is provided with dovetailed slots ff, Fig. 1, and into these are forced triangular spikes e e, the faces of which may 5c be plane surfaces, as at 9, Figs. 3 and 4; or, preferably, they are concaved, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. By the latter construction a greater frictional area is secured and sharper cuttingedges secured, so that as the spike is forced into the wood of the ties the fiber will be cut and regularly forced aside into frictional contact with the surfaces more perfectly than by the means now employed,

Thetriangular spike forms with the slot f 7c in the fish-plate a dovetailed joint, whereby the fish-plate is locked in position, preventing both a creeping or longitudinal movement of the rail and a lateral movement, as will be understood. 7 5

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1. The combination, with the fish-plates providing the integral bearings 12 b to engage the'upper and lower faces of the railflange and having at the bend therein clovetailed slots, of triangular spikes, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, with the rail, of a fishplate having dovetailed slots and triangular spikes, substantially as set forth.

3. The improved rail-joint combining with rails act and ties c c fish-plates Z) 1'), having vertical portions uniformly inclined, as described, and horizontal portions integrally 0 connected at the edges of the rail, the said horizontal bearing portions being provided with dovetailed slots in the bend, triangular spikes e, and bolts d, all said parts being arranged and adapted to operate substantially 5 as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of February, 1890.

FREDERICK T. FEAREY.

Witnesses:

OSCAR A. MICHEL, E. L. SHERMAN. 

